(June 1953)

Ace Magazines, 1951 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
A. A. Wyn Inc.
Brand
Ace
Editing
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

The Phantoms' Vengeful Return (Table of Contents: 1)

Fate / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Chic Stone
Inks
Chic Stone ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Circus director Cal Massey sabotages the acts of his artists. They die and the circus draws more spectators. The ghosts of the murdered artists drive Massey into a flaming vat of oil.

A Hand of Fate Mystery #21 (Table of Contents: 2)

A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
"There is a well known legend told in a small town in Germany of a noted composer who lived there in the late nineteenth century..."
Driven by a mysterious visitor, the composer writes a "Devil's Concerto". He plays it for his music teacher, transforms into the devil and kills the man.

Potion from the Unholy Cauldron (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sy Grudko
Inks
Sy Grudko
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Fate (host)
Synopsis
Shakespeare scholar Henry Bostwick gets the idea to actually brew together the ingredients of the witches' cauldron from "Macbeth" - summoning a genie who does his bidding. Bostwick becomes a he-man, gets his hand on laser-technology from the 30th century, but is tricked by Shakespeare's three witches into a fatal miscalculation.

A Hand of Fate Mystery #22 (Table of Contents: 4)

A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
"In the winter of 1903, two prospectors in the wasteland of Alaska mined a rich lode of gold..."
One kills the other. Getting back to civilization, there is no gold in his bag, but the body of his mate.

Web of the Spider Woman (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Molno
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
In Hampshire in England a "spider woman" walks abroad. Half woman, half beast the spider attacks people randomly and drains them of their blood. Police inspector Evans can hunt down the giant spider and destroy it by fire.

Curse of the Dead Twin (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Richard Shepley saves a woman from a train wreck, but has to leave her twin sister behind dying. The twin sister curses him and comes back from the dead. She succeeds in claiming her sister to join her in death.

The Spectral Executioners (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Rice
Inks
Ken Rice
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
In 1848, Ivan Deltchev from the Russian military police is squatting insurrections in Poland. Torturing people to death is his daily bread. But the "legion of heroic dead" comes back to haunt him. Deltchev is driven to insanity and death.
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. The Phantoms' Vengeful Return
    Fate
  3. 2. A Hand of Fate Mystery #21
    A Hand of Fate Mystery
  4. 3. Potion from the Unholy Cauldron
  5. 4. A Hand of Fate Mystery #22
    A Hand of Fate Mystery
  6. 5. Web of the Spider Woman
  7. 6. Curse of the Dead Twin
  8. 7. The Spectral Executioners
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Tillmann Courth
  • Jim Van Dore